Rohit Sharma: We had some errors in the field but not gonna look too much into that. Will tell the boys to keep our heads high, we’ve won and lost three. Lots of time left in the tournament, we need to stay in the game and competition. Quite happy with Green and SKY’s batting, they kept us in the game till the end. Credit to Arshdeep for his bowling, not our day today but we gave a good fight.
Sam Curran, PBKS Captain is the POTM: Special win. The amazing ground played many games with different sides. Great to get the win. Don’t think I should be getting the award, with the way our pacers finished the match, Arshdeep and Nathan were incredible and the spinners bowled well. When I went in to bat, I knew I had to give myself a chance. In the previous games, I’ve looked to go big a little too early and reflected on that.
But we got a long line-up and we saw Jitesh went bang-bang and we know he’s got that. He’s a massive player and we just have to take responsibility as players come back from injuries. (On captaincy) Two from three, I think we can go back to Shikhar. Great experience, the coaches and the local guys are helping me through. Bayliss, Haddin, and Co have created a good, relaxed environment. We’ve won a few early games which helps.
Pitch and weather: Win toss, bowl first, The Wankhede is a chasing ground. Since the start of 2021, the teams batting second have won 22 out of the 32 night T20s played at this venue. Spinners have been more successful here this IPL; they have 13 wickets at an economy of 7.64, while fast bowlers have nine at 10.17.
Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings Highlights today, Saturday 22-4-2023. 31st Match (N), Indian Premier League 2023, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
Toss: Mumbai chose to field.
Mumbai Indians team: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Tim David, 7 Jofra Archer, 8 Arjun Tendulkar, 9 Hrithik Shokeen, 10 Piyush Chawla, 12 Jason Behrendorff
Punjab Kings team: 1 Matthew Short, 2 Prabhsimran Singh, 3 Atharva Taide, 4 Liam Livingstone, 5 Harpreet Singh, 6 Sam Curran (c), 7 Jitesh Sharma †, 8 M Shahrukh Khan, 9 Harpreet Brar, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Rahul Chahar
Head to Head In T20’s: 29
Mumbai Indians Won: 15
Punjab Kings Won: 14
Form guide
(last five completed Matches, most recent first)
Mumbai Indians WWWLL
Punjab Kings LWLLW
Match Timings: 2:00 PM GMT | 7:30 PM Local
Umpires – Chris Gaffaney, Sadashiv Iyer
TV Umpire – Anil Chaudhary
Match Referee – Prakash Bhatt
Reserve Umpire – Madanagopal Kuppuraj
Match number – IPL 2023 – 31st Match
